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[quote=Anonymous]Fun article from a strong writer about a topic that's already been hashed to death. She's good enough to make it more than a just-kill-me-now topic. This should serve as a warning to the rest of us: Sidwell-type parents, in true Trumpian fashion, aren't just going to let their kids' "birthright" slip from their hands as a new generation of motivated public school kids challenge the legacy system. They want their own little Ivankas and Tiffanys and Jareds to go to Harvard, too!

The best parts, for those who won't get around to reading it:

"Earlier this month, Sidwell Friends School, bastion of the Washington, D.C., elite, was the site of a fantastical, Real Housewives of the Independent Schools cavalcade of hideous parental behavior, which apparently included a “verbal assault” on college counselors, secretly taping conversations with them, calling them from blocked phone numbers to run down other kids in the applicant pool, and trying to obtain copies of other students’ records.

At this point, we’ve reached peak private school. The shortage of spaces at elite colleges has driven these people mad, and there is nothing at all left to contain their behavior; their true motivation for sending their kids to these  schools has been laid bare."

And this, although the mention of Duke is kind of off, because I don't think these folks would be satisfied with Duke, just as many here apparently think that U Michigan is not quite snobby enough for the younger Obama daughter:

"Sidwell Friends, like most Quaker schools, has been able to retain many of its faith traditions despite welcoming a diverse student body; it’s the least oppressive religion on Earth. But the silent search for the inner spark of God is not much help when rabid parents are underfoot. Quakers are pacifists, for God’s sake. Conscientious objectors. If they weren’t going to take on Adolf Hitler, they sure as hell aren’t going to take on a Kalorama mom with blood in her eyes and Duke on her mind."

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